This discussion group is open to staff, faculty, and students. Students also may attend and receive elective credit.
Reading, Movie and Event List
Sponsored by the Maren Room Narrative Medicine Program, The T.H. Maren Foundation and The Center for Spirituality and Health
Discussions take place at noon in CC-041. Lunch is provided.
August Heart, mind, body
Aug 25 Movie : Wizard of Oz
Aug 31 Book : Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
September Health and the developing world
Rescheduled OCTOBER 13- CG-056 at noon
Sept 7 Book : Mountains beyond mountains: Healing the World: the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder
Sept 22 Movie : A Closer Walk
October Training and Detraining: gaining and losing empathy
Oct 5 Book : From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice by Jodi Halpern
Oct 20 Movie : Miss Evers' Boys
November Poverty, development and social development
October 27: group trip to see Nickel and Dimed at the Hippodrome
Nov 2 Book : Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nov 17 Movie : Nell
December Risk, security and public health
Dec 7 Book : Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier
Dec 15 Movies : Outbreak & Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
January Neurology and "locked in" syndrome
Jan 11 Book : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Death by JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY
Jan 19 Movie : Awakenings
February modernization, spiritual and mental health
Feb 1 Book : Bone People by Keri Hulme
Feb 16 Movie : Whalerider
March Science and mysticism
Mar 1 Book : Th e Cosmic Dance: Science Discovers the Mysterious Harmony of the Universe by Giuseppe Del Re
Mar 16 Movie : Dopamine & Victor Frankl
April Abilities, Disabilities, and Illness
Apr 5 Book : Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient by NORMAN COUSINS
Apr 20 Movie : Children of a Lesser God
April poetry special
Book : Blood & Bone: Poems by Physicians . Eds: Angela Belli & Jack Coulehan
May Mental health
May 3 Book : Touched WITH FIRE: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
May 18 Movies : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and Girl, Interrupted
June Genetics and Ethics
Jun 7 Book : Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World , by Lee M. Silver
Jun 15 Movie : Gattacca
July Social Control and Lives not worth living?
Jul 5 Book : Farhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jul 20 Movie : Soylent Green
